"Round 3! FIGHT!"

Two skilled kung-fu fighters fought on a two dimensional plane.

"Your fucked Kishi!"

"Bring it on Yuuto!"

Kurozai and Kiba were playing Mortal Fighter 3 once again, and it seemed as though they were getting heated.

Kurozai picked his favorite character, The Ice mage, whilst Kiba countered it with The undead samurai.

The arcade owner got ready with the prizes.

Every time the two came in, they would get a crazy amount of tickets, and end their day with Mortal Fighter 3. The only reason the arcade owner didn't unplug MF3 was because of those two.

"WINNER! ICE MAGE!" The speakers in the arcade cabinet announced.

Kiba sighed and gave Kurozai 500 yen.

"Bow before your reigning champion!" Kurozai cheered to himself.

Kiba looked at him annoyed. "Where did you learn to count? We're even!"

The two teens walked up to the counter, still arguing.

They stopped once the Arcade owner coughed into his fist.

"Same as usual boys?" The old man asked.

"Yes please." Kurozai nodded.

The arcade owner pulled out two bags of joking taffy, one bag with Banana yellow and another with Strawberry Red.

Kurozai took Red and Kiba took yellow.

"Thank you sir, we'll see you next time!" Kiba said as the two walked away.

The two began to walk to the park where they always ended a day at the arcade and ate the candy. However Kiba got a text message.

"Shit. Looks like you got my candy Kurozai, I gotta rush over to the club. Something came up and the president called a team meeting." Kiba said dejectedly. It was a rule when Kiba joined the Occult Research club that if he was ever called away during an outing that his goods would be forfeit, and vice versa for Kurozai before he got kicked out of both the Kendo club and the Track club for being too violent and too competitive.

Kurozai chuckled and handed Kiba two handfuls of both flavors. "Then I shall see you tomorrow Kiba."

Kurozai continued on his path to the park, avoiding a very annoying woman who kept trying to give him a flier.

Finally there, Kurozai opened up a piece of Strawberry taffy and tore into it. His teeth hit the taffy and he felt the delicious strawberry flavor fill his mouth.

Kurozai has always had a thing for strawberries. Everytime someone bought strawberries whilst Kurozai was around was always a mistake. Within 20 minutes you would be left with at the most, A Strawberry.

Snapping back to now however, Kurozai kept eating the Strawberry flavored taffy when he noticed the sky getting darker at a rapid pace.

He stood up from his strawberry flavored Nirvana confused. Something was wrong. Mainly, the lack of sounds around him. Normally he could hear the birds chirping and the voices of people strolling by.

He was only met with silence right now.

Kurozai watched through the water of the fountain in front of him, something moved on the other side.

Sword ready to be summoned, Kurozai walked around the fountain to see a woman in leather straps and two large black feathery wings holding a spear of light.

Kurozai felt his breath stop as he knew what was going to come to the boy he could see in front of her.

She threw the spear and it pierced the boy's torso, leaving a large gap in his chest.

"I am sorry, you were too much a risk to us. If you want to blame someone, blame-"

"The slut in the straps?" Kurozai interrupted. His armor covering his body.

The woman snapped her head to the annoyance in anger. "Who said that!"

Kurozai raised his left hand. "That was me!"

"Want to repeat what you said! Just want to see how much pain I should use!" She snarled at him.

Kurozai held his chin in his right hand. "What did I say? Oh right!" He snapped his fingers with a loud metallic SNAP. "I called you, 'The slut in the straps'. I know, not too creative on my part, but give me a moment and I can come up with better. Oh! How about 'The amazing Flying hooker!' Now only 200 yen. But then again I doubt you would even be worth that!" Kurozai insulted.

She was already angry, now the woman flying above Kurozai was Grade A pissed. "YOU FUCKING RAT!" she shouted.

Kurozai had already won the fight when she charged forward with two spears of light. In a blaze of fire he summoned a short sword made from a dark silver material.

The woman threw a spear at his head, Kurozai scoffed and sliced the beam of light in two halves, each of them missing their target.

Kurozai raised his sword to the woman with black wings. "Since this is my first real fight, I'm going to let you escape with your life! But in trade remember who you fought!" Kurozai taunted.

She responded by using the second spear as a sword. Kurozai blocked the attack with his sword and raised his left gauntlet to her face. "PYROS!" He shouted and from the gauntlet, a force of energy pulled in a magical aura in the air around the two.

The magic then ignited and turned into a fireball which hit her straight in the head, burning her face severely. She reeled back in pain and screamed.

"Remember the name of the newest Overlord! OVERLORD KURO-KISHI! Or The Black Knight!" Kurozai said as he raised his sword to be behind his head and pointed at her with his left gauntlet. The stone inside shined slightly.

She screamed and flew away.

Kurozai scoffed at her. "And the spirit thought this would be hard. Now let-" Kurozai stopped as he looked over the collapsed boy.

The one he had tried to save was Issei Hyouduo. One of three people he hated on this planet.

It all started during the beginning of the school year.

Kurozai had finally joined the Kendo club after getting kicked out of the Track club. However, due to the school still trying to open up as a public school for both genders, that meant there was only one locker room for both men and women.

But due to Kurozai's already good reputation and severe beating of a pervert in the track team, the girls let him use the showers so he could change and then once done, he would sprint out. It was a solid deal, Kurozai didn't have to walk halfway across the school to change, and the girls of the kendo club were guaranteed one male to defend them if they spotted a pervert.

And it just so happened that the Perverted Trio had found a peephole into their locker room.

Someone spotted the three and called them out for it. Immediately Kurozai grabbed his shinai and sprinted outside, forgetting to put on a shirt and beat the three stupid with the damn thing. He ended up breaking it and having to buy a new one.

Back to now however Kurozai put his armor away and began to walk off to go get his candy and leave. But he then felt something on his shoulders. Like a small pain.

Before this pain grew to become a searing problem across his shoulders.

He ripped his shirt off and felt his skin be pierced by small spikes. "WHAT! Corruption! FUCK! But how?!"

Kurozai had heard of corruption when he researched what he was supposed to do as an overlord. Corruption was the result of performing actions in the Destruction category of evil. Such as killing the innocent or destroying their homes and belongings.

"This counts!?" Kurozai questioned his gauntlet which he summoned onto his hand. He was met with silence.

"No. Fuck it, I am not helping the likes of, GHA!" The spikes grew more jagged as he tried to move forward. He ended up collapsing onto his chest as the spikes kept growing.

He was almost in tears from the pain. "I'll help! I'll help! Just make it stop!" He shouted.

A moment passed and the spikes retracted into his body. Kurozai stood up and walked over to Issei. "So what am I supposed to do here? Wave my hand over his wound and say, "You're all better now you disgusting piece of human filth. You can go die now!" Is that what you want me to do?" Kurozai asked his gauntlet.

He was met with silence. "Well what should I do?!"

The stone changed colors to a warm white light and Overlordic runes appeared. "What does that say? When life has been stolen, only servitude may be returned. What the fuck are you? A piece of armor or a fucking fortune cookie? Tell me what I have to do!" The gauntlet responded by moving his hand above Issei's heart. It changed to show new runes.

"Heed my call oh spirit that has been damned. Thoust life had been taken, but in servitude you may be reborn. Now rise my eternal slave. … What the fuck is this kinky sh-" A pillar of purple energy shot out from Kurozai's gauntlet.

Around the town, the light could be visible.

A group of four devils watched. Kiba Yuuto being one of them. His face was pale. "Kurozai, what have you done?"

The woman with black wings had her face wrapped in bandages as she and her compatriots, also with black wings, watched on in shock.

A man in a trench coat and a fedora chuckled. "An Overlordian Resurrection spell. I guess you were right, Raynere. That Black Knight you met is an Overlord."

The light died down and Kurozai saw that Issei's wound had healed. The boy began breathing again.

Kurozai heard cop sirens. He grabbed Issei and his candy and ran away.

He ran so far that he had reached his home. Kurozai looked at Issei and held his gauntlet out. "If it made him one of my minions, then…" Kurozai inhaled deeply. "Return home! Remember none of what transpired!" Kurozai demanded.

Issei opened his eyes. They were glazed and half lidded.

He walked home on his own and Kurozai entered his own.

Once inside Kurozai sat down at his desk and opened a draw of stolen books. All of which were about overlords. He opened the book of Corruption and its effects.

He stayed up for most of the night and ended up falling asleep at his desk only two hours before his alarm went off.

Kurozai awoke tired and groggy.

A piece of paper was stuck to his face and his hair was ruffled on the right side of his head.

After freshening up and getting dressed Kurozai went to school, tired and angry.

Once there he was immediately found by Kiba and his girl posse. "Hey Kuro- Whoa. Are you okay?" Kiba asked, worried for his friend.

Kurozai had deep bags under his eyes and was struggling to stand. "Maybe. Who's asking?" He replied halfway paying attention, and halfway trying to stay awake.

"Dude what happened to you after I left yesterday? You look like hell." Kiba asked as he threw Kurozai's arm over his shoulder and dragged him to class.

"Oh you know. The bog standard. Fought a chick with wings and leather straps for clothes and… I …" Kurozai began to snore.

Kiba snapped his fingers in Kurozai's face. He even shook him a bit. "Kuro?" His response was the continuous snoring of Kurozai.

Kiba shook his head. "Thank god no one else heard that. Hope Rias won't mind an impromptu introduction." Kiba said as he dragged Kurozai to the Occult Research club room.

Once inside Kiba threw Kurozai onto one of the two couches. He sighed and grabbed a dry towel from the shower that Rias insisted on using almost everyday.

With towel in hand he laid it over Kurozai and stood over him. "Sleep tight man. You're gonna need the rest for later." Kiba said before he left the club room.

Whilst sleeping, Kurozai had the strangest dream. He saw himself fighting a bird made of fire. He wasn't alone, he had a raven, a green fairy and a crimson dragon on his side. He raised an empty sword hilt and screamed as fire covered his body. Soon enough the fire formed into a suit of armor much like his own, yet different somehow.

Everything around him faded away and the only thing he could see was a man wearing a dark cloak with lightning radiating around him. "Wake up Knave!" The man shouted and Kurozai shot up from the couch.

He hit his head on something and groaned in pain. He heard Kiba start laughing. "Kiba?" Kurozai asked, confused. "Where the fuck am I?"

Kurozai finally opened his eyes as Kiba slowed his laughing till it stopped. "You're in the occult research club. You fell asleep and I couldn't wake you up. So I dragged you here to get some rest." Kiba chuckled as he scratched the back of his head.

Kurozai felt a sense of fear wash over him. The Occult Research club? That meant… "Oh no."

"Hi Kurry~."

Kurozai turned around slowly as he began to sweat. It had to be a dream. He was still sleeping at his desk and it's all just a bad dream.

He turned around to see the pair of eyes he never wanted to see.

Akeno Himejima stood behind him with a bruise on her forehead.

Kurozai stood up and backed up slowly. "Oh don't be like that, Kurry-Kun. How about this, I'll forgive you for hitting our heads together, if you just give me a kiss on the cheek." Akeno giggled as she walked around the couch to face him straight on. She had her eyes closed but opened them slightly. "Of Course we could just skip straight to the good part where you give me 15 kids." She said as her right eye twitched.

'-a cleaver would leave a lot of blood, but it's a quick swing. Swords are quicker but she could avoid the attack.' Kurozai was thinking of ways to get away from Akeno quickly.

Kiba knew that either a fight or something worse could break out and coughed into his fist. "Hey Kurozai, have you met Koneko yet?" He said distracting the both of them. "She's a first year student and one of my new friends. Koneko, introduce yourself real quick."

A short girl with white hair stood up next to Kiba. "Hello Senpai. I am Koneko Toujou, a first year student at Kuoh academy." She bowed slightly.

"Oh, uh hello. I am Kurozai Kishi." Kurozai said as he moved his focus from defending himself from Akeno, to introducing himself to Koneko. "I'm a third year student. Nice to meet you." Kurozai said, holding his right hand out, Koneko shook it and nodded.

Kurozai turned back around to see Kiba was restraining Akeno with rope. "OOOOH KIBA! Loosen the ropes please! I want Kurry to be able to access my body." She moaned out.

Kurozai moved five steps away from Akeno. He took one more step back to make sure he was a good enough distance away so if he needed to he could run.

A cough interrupted all thoughts in the room. Kurozai's eyes widened and he immediately turned around and shoved his hands into his pockets.

Rias Gremory had walked out of the shower covered with just a towel. "Oh shit, that's right, I forgot we had a guest. One moment please, Kishi-Kun."

Kurozai swallowed the air in his throat. "Take your time."

Silence befell the room as two points of sexual tension filled the air. Akeno's unsurprising apparent lust for Kurozai, and Kurozai's crush on Rias made things all the worse.

"Okay there! You can turn around now, Kishi-Kun." Rias said.

Kurozai sighed and turned around. Akeno was out of her ropes but there was one wrapped around her waist with the other end tied to Rias' desk.

"My apologies about my Vice president. I had assumed she could contain herself while I took a shower." Rias apologized.

"It's cool. Just, uh… Try to keep her away from me." Kurozai chuckled nervously.

An awkward silence fell over the room.

"So, Kurozai… I have a question for you." Kiba said as he turned to look at Kurozai.

"Shoot." Kurozai responded.

"What happened yesterday? You looked like absolute hell this morning." Kiba asked, with a cocked eyebrow.

The tension returned. Kurozai felt nervous again but decided to play it off. "Oh you know, ate all of your candy at the park. I do have to admit, you are onto something with that banana flavor." Kurozai said with a smirk, crossing his arms.

Unknowingly, Kurozai had just told them exactly what they needed to hear.

Koneko looked at Kurozai. "So then you saw the light?"

Kurozai looked at her confused. "Light?" He asked cocking his head to the side.

"Yes, the light in the sky. People could see it from all over Kuoh. You must have seen where it came from." Koneko spoke as she ate a bit of cookie,

Sweat started to form on Kurozai's brow. 'A light? Do they mean that thing that came out of my gauntlet? Shit! Do they know?' Kurozai thought in panic. He breathed deeply and exhaled. "I didn't really see anything. As Kiba could tell you, whenever I eat anything with a strawberry flavor I usually focus on nothing but the flavor. I even sat through an earthquake once and felt nothing but the flavor of a strawberry on my tongue." Kurozai said nervously. Trying to play it off with a known fact.

"That's true, but you know it is strange that you saw nothing." Kiba said with a shoulder shrug.

"Well you know me man, I don't really pay attention to much when I get strawberries." Kurozai said with a smirk, thinking he just played them like fools. "Anyway, I gotta get going soon. Shirosa's making dinner tonight and I-"

Kurozai stopped speaking as his eyes widened. Something was making his gauntlet react. He didn't even have it summoned yet he could feel the sensation. "I gotta go." Kurozai said in a hurry and booked it out of the room.

Rias folded her hand's together. "Akeno, did you slip that summon circle into his pocket?" She asked.

"Yes Lady Rias." Akeno said with a nod. "Good. Then everyone get yourselves ready to make a better first impression. We have an Overlord to meet."

Kurozai was a good distance away when he summoned his gauntlet. "What the hell is wrong with you?!" He asked. His response was an arrow in the gauntlet. "Great. This better be worth it. Some treasure or something." He mumbled to himself.

The gauntlet led him to the park where he saw Issei running straight at him.

"Whoa! Where's the fire?" Kurozai asked, feigning ignorance. 'Could Issei have found something and that's why my gauntlet was acting up?' He thought to himself.

"Kishi-Senpai! You gotta help me! There's some dude with wings trying to kill me!" Issei shouted in panic.

"Well what is this?"

Kurozai looked behind Issei and saw a man wearing a trenchcoat and wings land onto the ground. "Looks like this undead does have a master. Of course you don't look like you're from a demon clan. Maybe you're both stray demons! Yeah that would make sense. I can feel the demonic magic flowing through you. Although faint." The man spoke.

"God damn do you just like hearing yourself speak?" Kurozai insulted with a smirk.

Issei looked at him like he was fucking crazy.

The man in the trenchcoat glared at him. "You know what. I don't even care about pleasantries anymore." The man summoned a spear of light like the woman from yesterday used, except this one was much more refined and blue.

Kurozai snapped his fingers. "Oh wait a minute? Are you working with that chick in the straps?" Kurozai chuckled. "Oh shit you totally are! You look like a kind and respectful person. I'll give you a warning before you throw that, it won't work."

The man looked at Kurozai confused. "And why do you say that?"

Kurozai raised his left hand with the gauntlet covering it. "Simple. I have this." He said as he flexed his fingers.

The man's eyes widened. "Of course you would be him." The man spoke to himself. Then he started to laugh. "My apologies then. I had assumed you were a demon. Well, I know your kind are chaotic brutes, so in preservation of my life, I'll leave you two be." The man said as he flew away.

"Hold up!" Kurozai shouted. "Can I get your name?" He asked.

The man turned around mid air and looked at Kurozai. "I am Dohnaseek. A fallen angel. Let us both hope we never meet again, Overlord Kuro-Kishi." Dohnaseek said as he flew away.

Issei stared at Kurozai confused and slightly scared.

Kurozai sighed into his hand as Issei backed up.

"Issei Hyouduo… As much as I hate to say this." Kurozai said as his armor covered his frame and a spectral chain latched itself to Issei's soul. "You are now a part of my army. Destined to forever serve as my loyal minion."

[NEXT TIME!]

Issei tries to fight Kurozai for his freedom.

Rias reveals to Kurozai what she and her team are

Issei meets a young blonde nun

And Kurozai learns how to fly

[Chapter 3: The Slave and his King!]